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“The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.”  –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Need more morning inspiration?  Read our entire Fresh Morning collection!

There’s a greeting card that reads, “I miss you.” And on the inside: “There’s no one to grip the dashboard and scream in terror.” A decade or so back, two separate people gave me that card without the other knowing. Not much of a driver myself (a New Yorker through and through), I frequently do…

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“When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.”   – Wayne Dyer, best-selling author and speaker   Need more morning inspiration?  Read our entire Fresh Morning collection!  

As someone who has naturally woken at 10 am since I was a tiny tot (you’re welcome, mom!), I’m a big defender of those who have never caught–or wanted–a worm of any kind, except under duress and two alarm clocks. I’m good with this. But our culture, not so much. People make the moral argument…

Last week I put out the call for your favorite comfort words, and you answered!  So I took all the comforting loot over to Wordle and created what I think is a lovely word cloud suitable for bookmarking, printing out and refrigerator posting (click here to print it), and, of course, adding to!  Let those…

The Olympics can’t help but inspire us, with all the hope, triumph, and courage that each athlete brings to the games.  This quote from Pierre de Coubertin has me looking for my inner Olympian today.  Maybe it will have the same effect on you?  Fight well today! “The most important thing in the Olympic Games…

Our friends at the One City blog wrote a beautiful post just now explaining the “craving” Tiger Woods mentioned today in his public apology about his hugely infidelitous ways. Tiger, who was raised Buddhist, said: “Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop following every…

“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”   – The Dalai Lama Need more morning inspiration?  Read our entire Fresh Morning collection!

Let's build a list of comforting words to compile into a soothing Wordle for when times get tough.
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